What You Don't Know About the Immigration Bill
- From: "Jim Higgins" <gordian238@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 13:31:30 -0400
Senate favoring illegal aliens over American citizens
What You Don't Know About the Immigration Bill
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/30/AR2006053001181.html
The Senate passed legislation last week that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.)
hailed as "the most far-reaching immigration reform in our history." You
might think that the first question anyone would ask is how much it would
actually increase or decrease legal immigration. But no. After the Senate
approved the bill by 62 to 36, you could not find the answer in the news
columns of The Post, the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal. Yet the
estimates do exist and are fairly startling. By rough projections, the
Senate bill would double the legal immigration that would occur during the
next two decades from about 20 million (under present law) to about 40
million.
One job of journalism is to inform the public about what our political
leaders are doing. In this case, we failed. The Senate bill's sponsors
didn't publicize its full impact on legal immigration, and we didn't fill
the void. It's safe to say that few Americans know what the bill would do
because no one has told them. Indeed, I suspect that many senators who voted
for the legislation don't have a clue as to the potential overall increase
in immigration.
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